STUDIO OF SEBASTIAN VRANCX (ANTWERP 1573-1647)

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08.06.2023 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 965015
Lot 83 | STUDIO OF SEBASTIAN VRANCX (ANTWERP 1573-1647)
STUDIO OF SEBASTIAN VRANCX (ANTWERP 1573-1647)
Allegory of Water: A Fish Market; and Allegory of Air: A Bird and Poultry Market
the first dated '1632' (upper right, on the fountain)
oil on canvas
the first: 66 1/8 x 94 ¾ in. (168 x 240.7 cm.); the second: 65 3/8 x 92 3/8 in. (166.2 x 234.5 cm.)(2)
Vrancx




Provenance

Sir Gerald Codrington (1850-1929), 1st Bt., Dodington Park; Christie's, London, 13 July 1923, lot 6 (one of a set of four), as 'Joachim Beuckelaer' (400 gns. to Sherlinan (?) Bros).

Charles Frederick Urschel (1890-1970) and Berenice Slick Urschel (d. 1970), San Antonio, Texas; (†) Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1971, lots 82 and 84, as 'Sebastian Vrancx'.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1972, lots 89 and 89a, as 'Sebastian Vrancx'.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 April 1978, lots 8 and 9, as 'Sebastian Vrancx'.

Major Jocelyn Olaf Hambro (1919-1994), and by descent.



Literature

E.A. Honig, Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 144-147, figs. 64 and 65.



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